Barroso announces new EU Commission line-up

A NEW European Commission team was announced by Jose Manuel Barroso last night, a week after he withdrew the previous line up because of objections from the European Parliament.

Mr Barroso made minimal changes to his 24 member team having forced Italy and Latvia to withdraw their nominees in the last few days. Ireland’s Charlie McCreevy retains his Internal Market job.

They are expected to take up office on November 22, just three weeks later than expected.